Earlier this week, the still-mysterious media venture launched by ex-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci ran a poll on Twitter asking its followers, “How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?” Shockingly, the query, which followed a series of tweets asking people for their “thoughts” on an Anne Frank Halloween costume, did not go over well. The tweet was quickly deleted and replaced with an explanation that the Scaramucci Post was simply attempting to educate people about the genocide that resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews. Meanwhile, Scaramucci, who was traveling at the time, was said to be “furious” at his business partner, Lance Leifer, for posting the poll, writing that “If anyone was offended by this act, you have both my sincere personal apology and commitment that it will never happen again” and pledging to donate $25,000 to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Now that the two thought leaders behind ScarPo have had “time to reflect on the poll and the screed and attacks directed at us,” however, they’ve decided that they were totally in the right and that anyone upset by the dog whistle to Holocaust deniers has obviously fallen victim to “laziness and mob-mentality.” They’ve also decided the poll should, nay, must, go back up.

What the upper echelons of the ScarPo seemingly fail to realize—or fully realize and are pretending not to—is that if you would like to “educate” the masses about Adolf Hitler’s systemic murder of 6 million Jews, you might want to simply state the number as fact, rather than tweeting a poll that opens the floor for debate. As for their incredulity that anyone could think their intentions anything but pure, well, they might have a better leg to stand on if Scaramucci hadn’t stumped for an administration that failed to mention Jews in its January statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, tried to claim that “even Hitler” wasn’t as bad a guy as Syrian president Bashar Assad, and ran a campaign ad exclusively featuring images of Jewish people “that don’t have your good in mind,” which was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League as anti-Semitic.

Scaramucci, who once boasted a patina of respectability (though even way back when, there were questions), has fallen a long way since his days interpreting Trumpism for the Davos set. Then, Scaramucci earned his place in the national spotlight by reassuring fellow financiers—and later, reassuring ordinary Americans—that Trump should be taken seriously but not literally. Now, his schtick has devolved into a strange, Trumpian joke. It’s not clear who is supposed to be laughing.